Checkout Apache::SizeLimit. You can put something like this in your startup.pl:
use Apache::SizeLimit;
$Apache::SizeLimit::MAX_PROCESS_UNSHARED_SIZE = 20000;
$Apache::SizeLimit::CHECK_EVERY_N_REQUESTS = 2;
-Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: mod_perl child processes using way too much RAM
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a single script which is working but making the
> httpd_perl child
> processes jump to 60 Megs or more. I've asked the programmer
> to fix the
> script, but until he does, I'm wondering if I can either:
>
> 1. Force the script to run under PerlRun or under
> normal CGI. The
> problem is that I run all the scripts in the directory under
> mod_perl.
> And this script is called from a large number of other files and the
> directory is hard-coded in those files so I can't move it easily.
>
> Or,
>
> 2. Cause any httpd_perl child process which exceeds 20
> megabytes in
> memory usage to terminate after it's done.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob
>
